Health Information Exchange (EMS) Project

An informational summit related to HIE will be hosted by EMSA to promote and provide education to attendees on various HIE topics.

Explore the statewide EMS level of readiness through the local EMS agencies (LEMSAs) and EMS providers and California Hospitals to exchange pre-hospital EMS information. Assessment of EMS readiness and gap analysis for health information exchange will be done via contract with Lumetra Healthcare Solutions. Lumetra is tasked to identify key barriers to HIE, gaps, and cost considerations.

Demonstration projects will be conducted to “close the gap” in three LEMSAs. These agencies are: Contra Costa, Monterey, and Inland Counties Emergency Medical Agency (ICEMA). Each demonstration will have individual objectives.

Contra Costa will seek to: Make short-term changes to close information and reporting gaps; Identify pathway to integrate patient medical records across continuum of care; Define pathway to 3 levels of database analysis and reporting; Information system performance requirements; Identify gaps in IT support and recommend corrective actions; Explore feasibility of pilot project to link ePCR to single hospital EMR platform to obtain outcomes for EMS patients; Conduct all activities within a 1 year timeline and monitoring process for future development of specific implementations.

ICEMA will seek to: Continue work to develop process to allow hospital to access and append EMS ePCR information related to medical control; Process allows record orders making them part of patient’s EMR mark for review and add QA/QI comments on care issues for medical control evaluation; Identify and evaluate processes needed for inclusion of record into base and receiving hospital medical records; Demonstration of linkage between ePCR and a web enabled hospital data collection device.

Planting The HIE Seed Today…. To Grow An EMS Solution For The Future: Summit